Ask Dr. Hallberg: Using incentives to promote health
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Cash incentives are increasingly being used to entice patients to lose weight, stop smoking, or otherwise get healthy.
Mayo Clinic offered $20 a month for reaching weight loss targets. GE offered cash incentives for employees to stop smoking. Dr. Jon Hallberg discusses the practice of health incentives with MPR's Tom Crann.
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